Announcement of new owner for Foxlease

We have an important announcement to make about Foxlease, one of Girlguiding’s activity centres which closed on 31 December 2023.  

We’re glad that Foxlease is today entering a new chapter under the ownership and management of Foxie’s Future.

Foxie’s Future is a charity committed to preserving Foxlease’s legacy and has exciting plans to keep the centre thriving as a campsite, activity centre, and community resource for Girlguiding members and the wider public. This next step ensures that generations to come will continue to benefit from all Foxlease has to offer, and we look forward to working with them in the future.  

Girlguiding's trustees took time to carefully consider every possible opportunity for Foxlease in the future. The final decision came down to acting in the best interests of Girlguiding, all our members across the UK, and in accordance with charity law, as we have done for each activity centre sale. 

More information can be found on Foxie’s Future’s website, and they will make further announcements about the future of the site, bookings and how to support Foxlease. 

Denise Wilson, Girlguiding’s chair of the board of trustees, and Tracy Foster, chief guide and trustee, said: “On behalf of the trustees, we wanted to express how delighted we are that Foxie’s Future are the new owners of Foxlease. We look forward to working together so that Girlguiding members can continue to experience adventure at Foxlease in the future.” 

A new future fund for all our members  

We are glad to confirm that the money from the sale of the activity centres will go into a special future fund for the benefit of all our members – for adventure, including grants; for the future of guiding, including our digital infrastructure; and for Girlguiding activities such as preserving our precious memories and artefacts in our archive.